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Polymorphism and superconductivity in the V-Nb-Mo-Al-Ga high-entropy alloys
Science China Materials ( IF 6.8 ) Pub Date : 2020-01-10 , DOI: 10.1007/s40843-019-1237-5
Jifeng Wu , Bin Liu , Yanwei Cui , Qinqing Zhu , Guorui Xiao , Hangdong Wang , Siqi Wu , Guanghan Cao , Zhi Ren

High-entropy alloys (HEAs) are the focus of current research for their diverse properties, including superconductivity and structural polymorphism. However, the polymorphic transition has been observed only in non-superconducting HEAs mostly under high pressure. Here we report the discovery of the superconductivity and temperature-driven polymorphism in (V0.5Nb0.5)3−xMoxAl0.5G0.5 (0.2 ≤ x ≤ 1.4) HEAs, which are of a single body-centered cubic (bcc) structure for x = 0.2 and a mixture of the bcc and A15 structures for higher x values. Upon annealing, the bcc structure undergoes a polymorphic transformation to the A15 one and all HEAs exhibit bulk superconductivity. For the sample with x = 0.2, the bcc polymorph is not superconducting down to 1.8 K, whereas the A15 polymorph has a superconducting transition temperature Tc of 10.2 K and estimated zero-temperature upper critical field Bc2(0) of 20.1 T, both of which are the highest among HEA superconductors. With increasing Mo content x, both Tc and Bc2(0) of the A15-type HEAs decrease, yet the large ratio of Bc2(0)/Tc signifies a disorder-induced enhancement of the upper critical field over a wide x range. The decrease in Tc is attributed to the decrease in both the electronic specific-heat coefficient and electron-phonon coupling strength. Furthermore, the valence electron count dependence of Tc, which is different from both the binary A15 and other structurally different HEA superconductors, suggests that Tc may be increased further by reducing the number of valence electrons. Our results not only uncover HEA superconductors of a new structural type, but also provide the first example of polymorphism-dependent superconductivity in HEAs.



中文翻译:

V-Nb-Mo-Al-Ga高熵合金的多态性和超导性

高熵合金(HEA)由于其多种特性(包括超导性和结构多态性)而成为当前研究的重点。但是,仅在非超导HEA中大部分在高压下才能观察到多晶型转变。这里,我们报告的超导电性在(V发现和温度驱动多态性0.5的Nb 0.53- XX的Al 0.5 G ^ 0.5(0.2≤ X ≤1.4)HEA与,这是一个单一的体心立方(BCC)的结构为X = 0.2和BCC的混合物和A15结构更高的X价值观。退火后,bcc结构经历了向A15的多晶型转变,所有HEA均显示出本体超导性。对于x = 0.2的样品,bcc多晶型物不会在低至1.8 K时超导,而A15多晶型物的超导转变温度T c为10.2 K,估计的零温度上临界场B c2(0)为20.1 T,两者均是HEA超导体中最高的。随着Mo含量x的增加,A15型HEA的T cB c2(0)均降低,但B c2(0)/ T c的比例较大。表示在较大的x范围内无序诱导的上临界场增强。在减少Ť Ç归因于在电子比热系数和电子-声子耦合强度都降低。此外,与二元A15和其他结构不同的HEA超导体均不同的T c的价电子数依赖性表明,可以通过减少价电子数来进一步提高T c。我们的结果不仅揭示了一种新的结构类型的HEA超导体,而且还提供了HEA中依赖多态性的超导性的第一个示例。

更新日期:2020-04-23
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